…and Other Unlikely Places

“You can write a decent script from anywhere.”—Whitta

“I personally don’t think that being in LA is necessary to break in as a writer, but it certainly can’t hurt. I would hesitate to advise anyone to just quit their job and throw everything into a U-Haul and drive off to LA on a wing and a prayer. There are too many sad stories that began that way. If you want to be an actor, then you do need to be in LA, because you are the product. You have to go to auditions. You have to do that stuff. But you can write a decent script from anywhere. The difficulty begins once people start to get interested in your script. At that point you are going to have to go LA to go to meetings and for development.”Screenwriter Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli)Go Into the Story/Scott Myers Interview

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100 percent of the screenwriters who now have agents at one time didn’t have an agent. 100 percent of screenwriters who are now working at one time weren’t working. 100 percent of the screenwriters who have made money at screenwriting at one time time didn’t made a dime.” Michael Hauge Writing Screenplays that Sells page […]